#olooc

What’s one movie from your country that you like (or recommend others see)?

there are a few #iconic australian movies that i grew up with that i feel like no one knows about. and they’re very australian.. very tongue in cheek, don’t take themselves too seriously, and i’m not sure if that translates to other countries but!!

Priscilla Queen of the Desert: 

It’s about three drag queens travelling into the middle of australia on a bus and i don’t remember why they did it, but it’s very camp and i love it so much. this video is when they’re broken down in the desert and perform for Aboriginal people who help fix their bus :} i think growing up with these kinds of LGBTQ positive films helped me from an early age to understand acceptance, which is really not that prevalent in australia i don’t think. 

Pick a song from your country (or in your language) and talk about why you like it.

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart

This is just a beautiful song?? Michael Hutchence had such a beautiful unique voice. This song also reminds me of the 90s and the parties my family would have and mum dancing after a few drinks lol

Pick a classic song from your country - aka one that everyone knows, one that’s representative of your country, etc.

John Farnham - You’re the Voice

He’s the classic Australian singer and i feel like australian’s lose their shit when this song comes on? it’s literally the most iconic thing it’s beautiful to see.

What’s a book from your country (or in your language) that you’d recommend?

“Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence,” by Doris Pilkington. This was also made into a movie called “Rabbit Proof Fence” and if you can’t read the book, def see the movie!! it’s so important that more people understand the way aboriginal australians were treated by white australians, and this story talks about the stolen generation, which is when mixed-raced aboriginal children were taken from their (usually aboriginal) mothers and put into homes, institutions, etc. it’s so important and so touching and def worth checking out.

What’s your favourite childhood story from your country or culture?

tbh my childhood wasn’t particularly australian in any way that’s unique i don’t think, but fun fact: i wasn’t raised on kid’s programs like disney and those tv shows for kids. in my house we watched movies like men, so i grew up watching Grease, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Terminator. it explains a lot tbh.

Talk about a tradition from your country or culture that you love celebrating.

there are a few traditions that are specifically australian, but i think the one i like most is melbourne cup day. it takes place in november and it’s a horse race that takes place in melbourne. i don’t know how to explain it but basically, even if you don’t care about horse races or gambling or anything of the sort, you still watch it. it’s dubbed “the race that stops the nation” and for good reason - at 3pm on race day, australia stands still for 5 minutes to watch this one race. we used to get let out of school early to go watch it?? and anyway, each year we bet on a horse (i usually go for my lucky number) and even if you don’t win, it’s still fun.

Fave food from your country/culture:

i’m a piece of white bread so i have no culture but australia has some good food!! i think my fave thing is lamingtons, which is a kind of sponge cake coated in chocolate and covered in coconut.

Best season of the year in your country?

WINTER. it’s the middle of summer and i’m actually deceased. it’s get so hot here in summer, it’s actually disgusting, and it becomes impossible to do anything of merit during the day. winter is good (for me) because i love the cold weather, rain, and storms.

What’s one thing that you wish you could change about your country? Why?

more culture??? we have no film industry, no television industry, no flourishing writing industry... and on top of it, the industry that we do have is looked down upon by australians because we tend to see our own creations as bad/cringey/cheap. we really need more creation and support, and i wish we had that for artists of all kinds. it’s really disheartening as a writer to live here and know that if i ever did get published, a lot of people wouldn’t read my work because of the fact that i’m australian. we just hate our own work by default. i wish that would change so that people have a chance!

What’s one thing that you’re proud of about your country?

uhhhhhhhhhhh. there’s not a lot. i guess i’m proud that we have government-funded education and healthcare. i think that the support given by the australian government to its students and people is great, because anyone can study at university, and anyone can get treated at a hospital, and i think they’re both super important. 

Name a country you’d like to visit. 

england!!!!

Top three cities you’d like to visit: 

seoul, london, new york.

What’s the best place in your country that you’ve ever visited?

tbh i love sydney the most, even if it’s sometimes hell. i love being in the city, and i think sydney can/will be a great place in a few years time. i’ve also been to melbourne and i loved it there - very cultural, very pretty. sydney will probably always be top though.

Have you ever been abroad (out of your country)? If so, where did you go?

i’ve never left the country :( save me.

What are some myths or stereotypes about your country or culture that are either true or are false?

Pick a song from your country (or in your language) and talk about why you like it. Just like with film, I cannot stand most Norwegian music bc the language makes me cringe. There are several pretty great bands from Norway though, ‘Pony The Pirate’ has fun music. Mihhael Paskalev has a great song, named ‘I Spy’, which is catchy as fuck

Pick a classic song from your country - aka one that everyone knows, one that’s representative of your country, etc. HAHA laughing hard because that song that probably everyone knows is from Norway is THIS ONE! (just click it and laugh tbh).

What’s a book from your country (or in your language) that you’d recommend? Like mentioned above, ‘Mannen som elsket Yngve’ is a good book. Other than that, Norwegians and Scandinavians fancy themselves the best crime writers, Jo Nesbø, Jørgen Jæger, Jan Erik Fjell etc. etc. are all really popular crime writers here in Norway.

What’s your favourite childhood story from your country or culture? I’m genuinely struggling to find something that is related to our culture, because we don’t do things super different here? I think my absolute favourite memory was actually when I went to see HP3, and the city I lived in, the theatre there was doing this short film festival, so they couldn’t premiere the movie in the theatre, so they rented this beautiful outdoor theatre place (click for photo) to screen the movie. The local theatre group dressed up as death eaters along the path to the location, there were lights everywhere, it was awesome.

Talk about a tradition from your country or culture that you love celebrating. Okay, so, the last year of high school, Norwegian students can choose to be what we call ‘Russ’, it’s a month where students are dressed up in coloured pants (according to what you’re studying), and you get a Russ name (like I was named The 7th Queen, bc I was rly into Henry VIII for a while and I was the momma of our group of friends). During that month, we drink a hell of a lot, we have fun themed parties and like themed days during that last year where we dressed up and stuff. And we do small challenges to get different items in our Russ cap as proof that we did it. I did a massive multiple challenge thing, I ate 2 liters of ice cream underneath my desk during class, while having one finger in my ear for one hour. Three knots in my cap in one go. There are more drastic knots you can do, but I did the softer ones (like cycling around a roundabout on a tricycle, crawling through the local mall pushing a tennis ball with my nose etc etc. It’s a fun month to do silly things before you graduate and have fun with your friends.

Fave food from your country/culture: Ew, I don’t like any of the official Norwegian meals. We have Fårikål, which is basically lamb in cale (which is the literal name of the dish). We do however have a kind of cheese we use on bread which is Brunost, it’s brown cheese and it tastes a LOT better than it looks, I swear.

Best season of the year in your country? Fall/autumn, definitely.  All the trees get all these beautiful colours and everything, it’s gorgeous. Though if I lived north in the country, I would love winter a whole lot more because of the northern lights. But winter in Norway is COLD. I live in the south of Norway, so we don’t get the worst of the cold, but in the north of Norway, it can get to like -40 degrees celcius (which according to google is also -40 degrees fahrenheit)

What’s one thing that you wish you could change about your country? Why? If I said I wanted to change anything, I would be complaining about things that are already pretty great compared to a lot of other countries (Norway is a rich country dude, I’m not complaining). The lack of jobs for people is probably the thing I have the most complaints about.

What’s one thing that you’re proud of about your country? We’re pretty open about sexuality and stuff. Our government legalised same-sex marriage in 2009. I’m proud of that.

Name a country you’d like to visit. I want to visit Greece, and Australia, and also Orlando bc the theme parks haha

Top three cities you’d like to visit: Rome, Reykjavik, New York

What’s the best place in your country that you’ve ever visited? I love Bergen, a city on the west coast. It’s beautiful, it rains a lot, but it’s a beautiful city. 

Have you ever been abroad (out of your country)? If so, where did you go? I’ve been in London and other cities in England several times, also Wales. I’ve been in Denmark and I lived in Sweden for six months, I’ve been to Ireland (it’s beautiful in Dublin omg), I’ve been to Latvia and Estonia and that’s pretty much it.

What’s one plot you’d love to have for your character? (This can be both unfeasible and unrealistic - go wild!) i’d love for lennox to go dark in a deeper way - i’d love for him to be one of lowell’s men, to think he’s doing the right thing, to start taking orders, to kill someone/something and realise that maybe he’s in over his head. i love pushing lennox to a brink that i don’t think i can ever draw him back from and try to find my way back through his thoughts. but a darker plot, for sure.

What’s your favourite friendship that your character has? friends.... lennox doesn’t know what you mean by this..... his friends are literally noah, astoria, fitz, and flora. all four are great for lennox in different ways.

Name one relationship (bad or good) that you like for your character:  hm. lennox/solomon is great to me, because i feel like they have so much complex chemistry, and i never tire of pushing them. it’s also been great to plot w/ nate and see how far we can take them lol. lennox/darcy is interesting bc it’s so tender and vulnerable and they don’t speak about it, but it’s like a constant bruise. i love how spectacularly smith/lennox burned. i love every interact tbh just because lennox thinks about everyone just slightly differently - any time there’s conflict, sign me up. 

Pick one character that your character conflicts with. Why do you like this dynamic? probably solomon at the moment. they’re really in a bad place and i love diving into lennox’s head when it comes to the way he sees and interacts with solo. his reasoning is really fucked up, but i love writing their conflict.

Angst, we all love it. Which aspect of your character’s do you enjoy writing the most? i haven’t really been able to get into it yet, but i’d love to write more about lennox dealing with the possibility of developing schizophrenia like his mother. both he and flora deal with that in different ways, and i think it’s an interesting fact to live with - i want to explore lennox’s thoughts on it in the future. the angst w/ his mother is my favourite, too. anything family related gets my fraser cannons firing.

Which plot of your character’s has been your favourite so far? tbh the deal that the Minister offered him is great - it puts lennox in such a difficult position. he has to choose between what he wants and what he thinks he should do (his own life vs that of his family), and it also dangles in front of him the possibility of having the best of both worlds. that kind of decision is great to explore, and i hope there’s more of in the future.

What’s next for your character? i have a lot of thoughts - family pressure to marry, pressure from the minister to join up, increasing pressure from the outside world as werewolf attacks rise.... putting lennox between a rock and a hard place is my fave past time. for xander, i want him to get into some trouble that he can’t get out of. he needs to wake tf up from his daydreams of becoming a vampire and realise that this is the real world, but i think he needs a scare before that can happen.

Would you get along with your character in real life? me and lennox? lmao i think.... he’d be annoying to interact with because he’d be all sarcasm and eye rolls and i would either rise to the challenge and not give him room to be an ass, or i’d just completely disregard him and go on with my life. but given his pretty face... i’d probably tell him to wise up and try to wear him down a little. xander and i would get along like a house on fire!!! we’d talk until the early hours of the morning, but i think he’d be a bit intense sometimes. i’d still be his friend though bc i think that side of xander is a side i also have.

Is it easy for you to get into character? If you have more than one character, which of them is easiest to get into the headspace of? i really lean on lennox more than xander. though i feel similar to xander, it’s easier to get into lennox’s head because he’s the most solid to me - he’s just a grumpy presence that is permanently scowling, so it’s easy to get into that headspace. i just remind myself that for lennox family is everything, and the rest falls into place - it’s harder with xander, because his motivations are a little more murky.

Do you think Lowell is a bad guy or just #misunderstood? i mean... i’m the admin.... i think most people think he’s a bad guy, but i kind of hope he’s just misunderstood. an outright bad guy is too obvious ;)

If you could make one prediction for what’s going to happen in the RP, what would it be? hm..... more attacks, more escalation, more protests. probably violence. probably darker turns..... probably harder choices for the characters as time goes on - but i doubt anything will be as clear cut as “good” or “bad” :}

If you could say one thing to your character, what would it be? honestly lennox.......... wake tf up. family is important, but so is your life, so you should find a balance between the two. you don’t need to break yourself apart for your family, because you’re already doing all you can. live a little, let yourself have friends and fall in love, and keep writing. you don’t do enough of any of these things bud.

I can answer any of these :}

OOC Questions:

{send off anon} Send ✜ and I’ll fill out for your character:

my first impression of your muse:

my favorite thing about your muse:

would I ever consider shipping our muses:

a plot I’d like to see between our muses:

an AU I think would be interesting for our muses:

IC Questions:

{send off anon} Send me a ◉ and my muse will say one thing they like and one thing they dislike about yours.

{send off anon} Send a ✿ and my character will answer these:

A thought about them that they’d never share:

First impression of them:

Favorite thing about them:

Least favorite thing about them:

Your favourite character that you’ve ever RP’d as: i’m not sure. i love my character named levi because he was a challenge for me, and he’s tied to really nice memories with tara. i loved keller (from first OL) though - he was problematic as hell in hindsight, but i feel like i made him with my own two hands, so i loved him.

Your favourite FC to use: matt daddario is Providing for me... he’s cured my crops and fed my family... he’s got a good range of gifs and the fact that shadowhunters is still airing is helping a lot. but lee pace is my #identity tbh

FCs you have used: wow okay. lee pace, andrew garfield, emma stone (RIP grace), xavier samuel, tom sturridge. (i don’t really play females rip)

FCs that have been absolutely ruined for you (no offense intended to anyone playing them right now though): tyler posey. aaron taylor-johnson. candice swanepool. all for very different reasons lol

Your dream RP/an RP you’d like to join or make: i don’t want to give away spoilers but i’m already................ in the works of one of my dreams ;) other than that, i’ve love to make/join the ultimate marauders rp - set in the wide world of the wizarding world and battles and duels adn deception.

Do you prefer to admin or be a player? i find it hard to give up worrying when i’m just a player - even if it’s a good roleplay, i worry about being a burden to the admin or that i’m doing something wrong or that i’ve overstepped. i’m probably more comfortable being an admin in that case so that i just worry about everyone else and not myself lol.

What personality type do you think you play best? the cold, dead characters tbh. i think i can do cold/reserved/sarcastic okay, but i need all my characters to have a heart underneath. if they’re an asshole for an asshole’s sake, i really struggle to get into their character. 

A character (or character type) you’d like to play in the future: someone cruel tbh like a death eater. i’ve dabbled as being regulus, but he’s hardly a death eater when he’s at hogwarts - so i’d like to play someone badass and cruel and savage, just to see if i could.

Do you think your writing has improved through roleplaying? 100%. the first time i ever roleplayed, i was amazed at how well everyone else wrote and i didn’t think i was good enough to even be there. reading people’s paras and threads is so educational for me - whether it’s a nice turn of phrase or a string of words that someone’s used, i love reading and learning and expanding my own vocabulary. it’s also a great way to see how other people reason their character’s thoughts and actions, which is helpful to an author.

Gif chats or paras? paras D: i feel like there isn’t enough development or progress in gif chats - the space doesn’t allow it. give me a good para where i can read your character’s thoughts for 98% of it lol

Open starters or planned threads? i think some great things can come from open starters, but i much prefer planned threads where we can talk through what we want to happen and what we’re both going to get out of it!

A memorable roleplay moment: hm... operation:riot in OL was important to me, just because it felt monumental and new to me as a roleplayer. it was a hefty task to organise but em and i both felt as though it paid off afterward, and we slept for a week. but honestly, every time i’m able to pull off a surprise event in the roleplay by plotting and planning with some players behind the scenes has been a great moment, mostly because i know it feels good to them to see it go off well, and for the surprise of the players who didn’t know.

Have you made any friendships through roleplaying? i feel as though i’ve made a lot of friends - people that i don’t talk to anyone more are still friendships that i treasure. i made great friends at my first rp, i made great friends through OL, and i met tara. i’ve loved getting to know people and writing together, and honestly seeing people grow up/do new things/achieve their dreams while we roleplay in the background is amazing.

LONG FORM:

Pet peeves: FEET. IN ALL FORMS. LITERALLY DO NOT SHOW ME YOUR FEET. also something that pisses me off is when i’m told information i already know.... like if someone repeats a story to me, i have zero patience.... or if they rehash information prior to adding new information, i will cut them off, fill it in with a brief explanation to show i understand, before letting them continue. idk why i think just hearing things for the second, third, fourth time always feels like wasting time? i can’t do it. people who cough and sneeze and don’t make an effort to cover their mouth/nose with something other than their damn hands. slow internet. NO INTERNET.

Bad habits: like above, a bad habit is cutting people who off who are rehashing a story or information. i don’t cut them off in general, only in that situation, but i could def work on that lol. chewing my nails. buying shit that i don’t need, especially books. 

Favourite scents (your amortentia!): coconut, vanilla, the smell of clothes when they come out of the dryer. 

Favourite animal: tbh either lions or owls. at a zoo, i’d ideally spend the whole day at the lion enclosure, watching them sleep.

Favourite colour: green!!!!

Favourite place to go (local or otherwise) (photos get bonus points): about five minutes from my house is the beach and a cliff that overlooks the beach. there’s a watch tower there, and beneath the hill is actually these tunnels that they used during WW2 bc they thought Japan was going to invade so they stored weapons and ammo there. anyway, sitting up on the hill and looking out across the water is my favourite place to go to think, and i usually always go there with my mum to talk. i’ll include some pictures at the end!!

Favourite meme: honestly, i love the “tag yourself, i’m ____” meme. whether that’s when people make the photos and poorly spelt options, or even just when someone posts a photo/text post and drags the OP by saying “tag yourself, i’m the ___” 

Do you have any creative or artistic abilities? so i write, and i’m hopefully alright at that. i used to do art, and i’m mediocre at drawing but i don’t do it to create, i usually draw to express story ideas or a character’s look/feel. i can crochet, idk if that’s necessarily creative or artistic. i can play the harmonica parts for “piano man” by billy joel!!! 

Talk about something that made you happy today, yesterday, this week: a few things did!! i went to a bookstore and bought some books, so that made me feel materialistically happy. right after that i got sick at my friend’s house with a cold that came on within a few hours and that wasn’t great but it made me happy that i had a friend who would take care of me lol. also i’ve been very productive this week despite illness, so that made me happy upon reflection!! 

Talk about an experience that made you feel proud or confident: tbh when i feel very bad about my confidence, i remember this one time when i was in high school (so i was 17) and we had mentor groups, which is when the ~smart kids~ are assigned to a teacher and mentored for the year. (the teacher basically just asks how you’re doing lol) ANYWAY we had a mentor day at a camp-like place, where there’s archery and games and shit. being a bigger girl in these kind of places = anxiety in the first place, and there was a zipline thing where you climb a telegraph pole (with no ropes? wtf?), strap into the zipline, and then they push you off and you fly down a rope for a few hundred metres. anyway, all my friends had gone, and time was running out, and i WANTED to do it, but my anxiety was like..... ur literally too big... also if you do, everyone will laugh.... and then i was just like ? fuck it???????? so i climbed the shit out of that terrifying pole, i strapped myself in, and i went down that zipline like Tris from Divergent and like. no one laughed? they were cheering? it was one of the most liberating moments of my life, just bc i realised that a lot of my fears are only in my head and not actually reality, and that if you want something, even if its small, you should go for it. i’m proud of myself for doing it.

Talk about something/someone that makes you feel relaxed: my bed makes me feel relaxed, but also probably talking to my mum - if i have a problem, i know that she’ll listen and help if she can.

Talk about something you’re yet to try for the first time but want to: everything i want to do is simply just so i can write about it better? lmao???? so i’d want to kiss someone so i could write about it more accurately, i’d want to get high so i could write about it better. i can’t drink bc of health reasons, but if i could, i’d like to get drunk to write about it better. mostly everything is just so i can be a better, more rounded writer. 

Who are your role models and why: tbh idk if i have role models. i used to, but the older i get, the more i feel as though i rely less on looking up to people?? i really admire a lot of writers though, like Neil Gaiman and Leigh Bardugo and even J.K Rowling. also even though she’s a youtuber, i admire Zoe Sugg bc she just seems like a good person with a good heart? she’s been very open about mental illness and she’s written books and released a make up line and she’s... just normal? that’s a great role model, esp for younger people, so i’m glad she’s got a huge audience. 

(tbh send anything even if it’s not on the list i have no sense of privacy)

1 : Are you in love?

2 : What’s your middle name?

3 : Dream Job?

4 : Dream car?

5 : If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

6 : You’re stranded on an island, who do you bring with you?

7 : Do you have a crush on someone?

8 : Favorite thing to do on rainy days?

9 : Are you an affectionate person?

10 : You’re travelling the entire world but you can only take one person with you. Who do you take?

11 : How tall are you?

12 : The inevitable Zombie Apocalypse is upon us! What’s your plan of action?

13 : How do you relax?

14 : Board games or drinking games?

15 : Describe your dream date

15 : Describe what qualities you look for in a person

16 : Have you ever had a valentine?

17 : Describe your first kiss.

18 : You’re at a candle shop, what scented candle do you buy?

19. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create?

20. Elsa, have you ever built a snowman?

21. What is your current desktop picture?

22. Current phone lockscreen.

23. What were you doing at midnight last night?

24. Are you a morning person or a night person?

25. Would you rather speak all languages or be able to talk to animals?

26. What fictional world would you want to live in?

27. What’s something you’ve done that you’re really proud of?

28. What are the names of your pets?

29. 5 things you associate yourself with.

30. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?

31. In scale from 1-5, how afraid of dark are you?

32. if it were possible, what exotic animal would you keep as a pet?

33. Do you believe in true love?

34. Any piercings or tattoos?

35. Do you study or work? If so, what or where?

36. If you could become fluent in another language, which would you pick and why?

37. Describe a strange habit of yours.

38. Outline your typical day.

39. What is the strangest dream you’ve ever had?’